Is the possibility that Covid-19 leaked from a lab a conspiracy theory?

How the problem originated isn't relevant to the people whose job is to deal with the problem.

Was there a DARPA research group planning to insert a "proteolytic cleavage site” into bat coronaviruses?

I think you may have gone too deep into covid conspiracies. No idea what you're even talking about here.

Did Niaid award a research grant to a company, who then issued a sub-award to the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China (and intentionally hide communications from public view)?

Yes, there were grants to a research lab. Not sure what that indicates other than they wanted access to the results of the research. It's not at all disputed that there are research grants and the research lab in Wuhan received a research grant.

The problem with conspiracy theories is the generally fall apart when as soon as you ask "why would they want to do this?" So why would China want to intentionally release a virus on it's own people in the hopes that it would spread to the rest of the world? How would that benefit them in any way?

Yes, it's possible that the virus accidentally came from the lab in Wuhan. But how does having testimony from a guy that's retired help determine that? What does it even accomplish even if you did determine that a virus came from a lab in Wuhan?

Sounds to me like you just want someone to say "you were right, the virus came from a lab." So ok...

You were right, the virus came from a lab.

Are you happy now? Has your life suddenly gotten better? Will you stop pretending that fascists cracking down on individual scientists is a good thing to do because you now feel emotionally vindicated about some internet arguments you had around five years ago?